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A mother shortly after childing (noun sense). This image of Lynda Coburn at the birth of her daughter, Jackie Lynn Coburn, on 27 January 1972, called “Moment of Life”, was part of a series documenting childbirth for which the American photographer Brian Lanker won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
This Conſtantia was fiftie yeares of age before ſhe was conceiued with him; whom the emperor Henrie the ſixth to auoide all doubt and ſurmiſe that of hir conception and childing might be thought, and to the perill of the empire inſue: cauſed his regall tent to be pitched abrode in place where euery man might reſort.
When Zalzer is grown up, and leaves the nest, the Simorg gives him one of her feathers, telling him, whenever he is in great distress, to burn it, and she will immediately come to his assistance. Zalzer marries Rodahver, who is likely to die in childing; he then burns the feather, and the Simorg appears and orders the Cæsarean operation to be performed.
[H]e had grown up there and there wedded a wife; but that when she died in childing with her first bairn, and the bairn had not lived, he loathed the place, and came back again into the Dale.
2008, K. E. Saxon, Highland Vengeance (The Medieval Highlanders; 1), : Passion Flower Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 207:
I only wish you had arrived this day past. For we had a feast in honor of my wife's childing and her father's visit. Your arrival would have given us even more to be glad for.
From late Middle Englishchilding(“pregnant”), from childen(“to give birth to a child”) + -ing, -inge(suffix forming the presentparticiples of verbs, which were often used as adjectives); equivalent to child(verb) + -ing(suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having a specified characteristic, nature, or quality’, and forming the present participles of verbs).
With fire and sword the country round / Was wasted far and wide, / And many a childing mother then, / And new-born baby died; / But things like that, you know, must be / At every famous victory.
1629, John Parkinson, “Bellis. Daisie.”, in Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris., London: Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng, →OCLC, pages 323–324:
[page 323] Bellis minor hortenſis prolifera. Double double Daiſies or childing Daiſies. […] The chiefeſt variety conſiſteth in this, that is beareth many ſmall double flowers, ſtanding vpon very ſhort ſtalkes round about the middle flower, […] [page 324] The French call them Paſquettes, and Marguerites, and the Fruitfull ſort, or thoſe that beare ſmall flowers about the middle one, Margueritons: our Engliſh women call them Iacke an Apes on horſe-backe, as they doe Marigolds before recited, or childing Daiſies: but the Phyſitians and Apothecaries doe in generall call them, eſpecially the ſingle or Field kindes, Conſolida minor.
The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries; and the mazed worlde, / By their increaſe, now knowes not which is which; […]
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